After rewatching both childhood staples The Haunting and The Legend of Hell House in the past few years, I've come to the conclusion that this is easily one of the harder subgenres to "get right" for filmmakers. There really aren't that many great ghost movies. Not unless you start bending, or blending, the subgenre. I mean: Kuroneko, is close. But that's also a monster movie. The Amitvyille Horror is actually more of an occult film, given the constant religious themes, possession subplot, and the Exorcist rip-off Detective character. The Haunting, The Innocents, Hell House, and many other films are just not very good. They're much too shrill, one note, histrionic, absurd, over-the-top, etc. And, like I've said in other threads, you pretty much know from the beginning who will live and who will die. Most ghost themed films play it too safe. (Which is one of the reasons The Changeling is so good, when it starts hitting hard- it really isn't expected.)